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Engagement and Productivity are a difficult and delicate balance. Working to improve one, does not necessarily improve the other – at least, sustainably. It can be so difficult to translate the different ‘languages’ of traditional assessment tools, activities and development outcomes into every task and every working relationship – every moment of every day – […]

As it stands, breakfast really isn’t a bad analogy. There seem to be as many ‘brands’ of culture as there are breakfast cereals. Are you hoping to describe your organizational culture as Irresistible? Humanistic? Purposeful? Happy? …Some other (mostly) ‘people-centered’ word? Or, would you say Innovative? Customer Service? LEAN? Collaborative? …Another (sort of) ‘process-oriented’ description? […]

One of the most disengaging situations I can think of – is the idea that employees are paying with their health to build their wealth…. Only to use that wealth, later, to re-gain their health… Even worse… If I add the $300 billion in US losses from attempts to fix this, it really does make […]

Have you ever been in one of those relationships that started out with magical moments of bliss – before one party moved on (‘just’ fell out of love, one day)… leaving the other behind to wonder what went wrong (jilted into one of those “was-it-me” depressions)? Well, business has left HR behind, and I feel […]

Maybe it’s the ex-banker in me, but when I hear claims made about the ROI for engagement activities, I cringe. Comments like – ‘When your people are engaged, they will be more productive’ – and other wonderfully vague, broad suggestions. I find myself asking… How quickly will all this magic happen? Will everyone be engaged, company-wide – […]

So many of the best practices in engaging employees feel like bribery and big promises of never-ending bliss. It’s a bit like corporate leaders are behaving like our divorced parents – at some point, Dad trumps Mom by putting a pony in the backyard… But, are any of us really any happier at work, every […]

So, your engagement survey has done a fabulous job in pinpointing the current state of your company-wide engagement, BUT what are you going to do to FIX any of the problems it highlighted for you? You know how important engagement is. You’ve had the phrase ‘we can only manage what we can measure’ drilled into […]

A Revolutionary Look at Engagement in Productivity – Free yourself from broad definitions of engagement and misguided attempts to attain and sustain employee engagement in productivity. In the course of human events, we have reached a moment when every corporate citizen may abolish the establishment of absolute tyranny over the state of your […]